This webinar will discuss three tools that can be employed for environmental assessments. The first tool is the Tethys Management Measures tool, developed by the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the Annex IV initiative, that can be used to generate a detailed list of potential management measures for addressing environmental concerns around marine renewable energy (MRE) deployments.
The second tool from the United Kingdom is the Impact Assessment Tool (IMPACT), which allows users to identify the potential key environmental impacts associated with MRE developments and to access guidelines and recommendations for how best to assess, monitor and manage these impacts.
The third tool, AquaPixel, is being developed in Singapore as a GIS and data management tool developed for marine spatial planning allowing project developers, technology developers, regulators and other interested parties to ensure that marine renewable developments are optimized to find suitable sites and devices that match those sites from a technical aspect, whilst ensuring that environmental impacts on conservation, cultural heritage and socio economic factors are minimized.
See the link below for more information on the webinar and to download the Calendar Event which contains the instructions for dialling in.
https://tethys.pnnl.gov/events/tools-and-resources-environmental-assessments
